| Salix hebecarpa Fern. | |||
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| Family | Salicaceae — APG family: Salicaceae | ||
| Description | Prostrate dwarf shrub; twigs glabrous; leaves ovate, glabrous, entire in the margin, paler beneath; catkins on pubescent, leafy peduncles; bracts ovate, obtuse, light brown, with long, white hairs; capsules short-pedicellated, somewhat pubes- cent when young, later glabrescent, light brown with short style. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine regions. Known only from 2 fragmentary specimens, one from Teller and one from Salmon Lake, north of Nome. Further collections desirable. Identification necessarily tentative. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.